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John Michael Tutill Thompson
Professor John Michael Tutill Thompson
	Professor J. Michael T. Thompson
Born	June 7, 1937 (age 87); Cottingham, England
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Honorary Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, Emeritus Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics, Dept of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, University College London
Known for	Shell buckling and nonlinear dynamics
Awards	James Alfred Ewing Medal (1992), Lyapunov Award of ASME (2013)
Academic background
Alma mater	Cambridge University
Doctoral advisor	(Lord) Henry Chilver

John Michael Tutill Thompson (Michael to his friends), born on 7 June 1937 in Cottingham, England, is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. He is married with two children.

Education and career

Thompson attended the Hull Grammar School, and studied Mechanical Sciences at Cambridge University (Clare College, 1955–61), winning the three top prizes of the Engineering Faculty: the Rex Moir Prize for Part I of the Tripos, the Archibald Denny Prize for Part II, and the John Winbolt Prize for a research essay. His doctoral thesis (PhD, 1962) under the supervision of (Lord) Henry Chilver^[1] was devoted to the buckling of thin spherical shells.^[2] He spent three more years at Cambridge as a research fellow at Peterhouse.

He joined the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University College London (UCL) in 1964, where he was professor from 1977-2002. Here he built up an internationally recognized group in structural stability, organized an IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) Symposium ^[3] and wrote an authoritative book on the underlying general theory.^[4] Two more books on the buckling of engineering structures quickly followed ^[5]^[6] and he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985.

His research interests were shifting to dynamics and his book Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (1986) sold 14,000 copies and had a major world-wide impact by introducing recent mathematical developments to engineers and applied scientists.^[7] His research activity in this period included the discovery of chaos in impacting system,^[8] and the establishment of a new design criterion for the integrity of systems against basin erosion by incursive fractals.^[9]^[10]

As a senior fellow of the UK Science and Engineering Research Council (1988–93) he was the founder and director of the UCL Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics and its Applications (1991-2002) which was renowned for its application of advanced mathematics to practical problems in (for example) off-shore engineering. The centre hosted an IUTAM Symposium ^[11] in 1993, and Thompson was for 10 years (1998-2007) a vigorous and innovative editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, the world’s longest running scientific journal.^[12]^[13] His later research developed the static-dynamic analogy,^[14] delineating spatial chaos in twisted rods and buckling cylinders;^[15]^[16] together with some ideas regarding climate change.^[17]

A workshop in Thompson's honour was held at UCL in April, 2003. The proceedings, published in the journal Nonlinear Dynamics ^[18] included a biographical article by Lord Chilver. Later, for his 75th birthday, a special issue of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. was edited by Isaac Elishakoff,^[19] for which Thompson wrote a paper offering advice to young researchers.^[20]

Appointments

Fulbright Research Associate, Dept. Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University (1962-3)
Lecturer & Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University College London (1964-2002)
Visiting Professor, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (1976-8)
Visiting Mathematician, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York (1984)
Senior Fellow of the UK Science and Engineering Research Council (1988–93)
Distinguished 6th Century Chair, Theoretical & Applied Dynamics, University of Aberdeen 2006-16
Honorary Fellow, Dept Applied Maths & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University (2003–present)

IUTAM Symposia organised at UCL

Collapse: the buckling of structures in theory and practice, 1982
Nonlinearity and chaos in engineering dynamics, 1993

Principal honours and awards

Sc.D. (Cambridge), 1977
Council of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 1989–92
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1985. Elected to the Council, 11 July 2002
OMAE Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985
James Alfred Ewing Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers & the Royal Society, 1992
Editor, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (A), 1998-2007
Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Aberdeen, 2004
Gold Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, for lifetime contributions to mathematics, 2004
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, elected Honorary Member, 2010
Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea), elected to Academy, 2010
Lyapunov Award (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) for work in nonlinear dynamics, 2013

Books published

A General Theory of Elastic Stability, Wiley, London, 1973
Instabilities & Catastrophes in Science and Engineering, Wiley, Chichester, 1982 (Translations: Russian, Japanese)
Elastic Instability Phenomena, Wiley, Chichester, 1984
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, geometrical methods for engineers and scientists, Wiley, Chichester, 1986 (Translations: Japanese, Italian). Second Edition, 2002.

Sources

Who’s Who 2016 (copyright © A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc)
JMT Thompson’s Home page: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucess21

References

^ J. M. T. Thompson, "Amos Henry Chilver FREng, Baron Chilver of Cranfield", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 59, 73–91 (2013)
^ J. M. T. Thompson, The Elastic Instability of Spherical Shells, PhD dissertation, Cambridge University, September 1961
^ J. M. T. Thompson & G. W. Hunt (eds), Collapse: the buckling of structures in theory & practice, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983. Proc IUTAM Symposium, University College London, August, 1982
^ J. M. T. Thompson & G. W. Hunt, A general theory of elastic stability, Wiley, London, 1973
^ J. M. T. Thompson, Instabilities and catastrophes in science and engineering, Wiley, Chichester, 1982. Translated into: Russian, Japanese
^ J. M. T. Thompson & G. W. Hunt, Elastic instability phenomena, Wiley, Chichester, 1984
^ J. M. T. Thompson & H. B. Stewart, Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, geometrical methods for engineers and scientists, Wiley, Chichester, 1986. Second Edition, 2002. Translated into: Japanese, Italian
^ J. M. T. Thompson & R. Ghaffari, Chaos after period-doubling bifurcations in the resonance of an impact oscillator, Physics Letters, 91A, 5-8 (1982)
^ J. M. T. Thompson, Chaotic phenomena triggering the escape from a potential well, Proc. R. Soc. A 421, 195-225 (1989)
^ M. S. Soliman & J. M. T. Thompson, Integrity measures quantifying the erosion of smooth and fractal basins of attraction, J. Sound & Vibration, 135, 453-475 (1989)
^ J. M. T. Thompson & S. R. Bishop (eds), Nonlinearity and chaos in engineering dynamics, Wiley, Chichester, 1994. Proc IUTAM Symposium, University College London, July, 1993
^ J. M. T. Thompson, Philosophical Transactions into the 21st century: an editorial, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., A 357, 3187-3195 (1999)
^ J. M. T. Thompson, Ten years of science in Philosophical Transactions A: with the University Research Fellows, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 365, 2779-2797 (2007)
^ G. W. Hunt, H. M. Bolt, J. M. T. Thompson, Structural localization phenomena and the dynamical phase-space analogy, Proc Roy. Soc. A, 425 (1869): 245-267, 1989
^ A. R. Champneys & J. M. T. Thompson, A multiplicity of localized buckling modes for twisted rod equations, Proc. R. Soc., A 452, 2467-2491 (1996)
^ A .R. Champneys, G. W. Hunt & J. M. T. Thompson (eds), Localization and solitary waves in solid mechanics, World Scientific, Singapore, 1999
^ Brian Launder & J. Michael T. Thompson (eds), Geo-engineering climate change: environmental necessity or Pandora's Box?, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010
^ Lord Chilver, Michael Thompson: his seminal contributions to nonlinear dynamics – and beyond, Nonlinear Dynamics, 43, 3–16, 2006. Opening paper in two special issues in honour of Michael Thompson
^ Isaac Elishakoff (ed), A celebration of mechanics: from nano to macro, Theme Issue of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 371, 2013
^ J. M. T. Thompson, Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 371, 20120425 (2013)

[1] J. M. T. Thompson, "Amos Henry Chilver FREng, Baron Chilver of Cranfield", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 59, 73–91 (2013)

[2] J. M. T. Thompson, The Elastic Instability of Spherical Shells, PhD dissertation, Cambridge University, September 1961

[3] J. M. T. Thompson & G. W. Hunt (eds), Collapse: the buckling of structures in theory & practice, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983. Proc IUTAM Symposium, University College London, August, 1982

[4] J. M. T. Thompson & G. W. Hunt, A general theory of elastic stability, Wiley, London, 1973

[5] J. M. T. Thompson, Instabilities and catastrophes in science and engineering, Wiley, Chichester, 1982. Translated into: Russian, Japanese

[6] J. M. T. Thompson & G. W. Hunt, Elastic instability phenomena, Wiley, Chichester, 1984

[7] J. M. T. Thompson & H. B. Stewart, Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, geometrical methods for engineers and scientists, Wiley, Chichester, 1986. Second Edition, 2002. Translated into: Japanese, Italian

[8] J. M. T. Thompson & R. Ghaffari, Chaos after period-doubling bifurcations in the resonance of an impact oscillator, Physics Letters, 91A, 5-8 (1982)

[9] J. M. T. Thompson, Chaotic phenomena triggering the escape from a potential well, Proc. R. Soc. A 421, 195-225 (1989)

[10] M. S. Soliman & J. M. T. Thompson, Integrity measures quantifying the erosion of smooth and fractal basins of attraction, J. Sound & Vibration, 135, 453-475 (1989)

[11] J. M. T. Thompson & S. R. Bishop (eds), Nonlinearity and chaos in engineering dynamics, Wiley, Chichester, 1994. Proc IUTAM Symposium, University College London, July, 1993

[12] J. M. T. Thompson, Philosophical Transactions into the 21st century: an editorial, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., A 357, 3187-3195 (1999)

[13] J. M. T. Thompson, Ten years of science in Philosophical Transactions A: with the University Research Fellows, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 365, 2779-2797 (2007)

[14] G. W. Hunt, H. M. Bolt, J. M. T. Thompson, Structural localization phenomena and the dynamical phase-space analogy, Proc Roy. Soc. A, 425 (1869): 245-267, 1989

[15] A. R. Champneys & J. M. T. Thompson, A multiplicity of localized buckling modes for twisted rod equations, Proc. R. Soc., A 452, 2467-2491 (1996)

[16] A .R. Champneys, G. W. Hunt & J. M. T. Thompson (eds), Localization and solitary waves in solid mechanics, World Scientific, Singapore, 1999

[17] Brian Launder & J. Michael T. Thompson (eds), Geo-engineering climate change: environmental necessity or Pandora's Box?, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010

[18] Lord Chilver, Michael Thompson: his seminal contributions to nonlinear dynamics – and beyond, Nonlinear Dynamics, 43, 3–16, 2006. Opening paper in two special issues in honour of Michael Thompson

[19] Isaac Elishakoff (ed), A celebration of mechanics: from nano to macro, Theme Issue of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 371, 2013

[20] J. M. T. Thompson, Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 371, 20120425 (2013)

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J. Michael T. Thompson

Education and career

Appointments

IUTAM Symposia organised at UCL

Principal honours and awards

Books published

Sources

References

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